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A less alarmist and clickbait article can be found here: https://www.popsci.com/science/voyager-computer-issue/

NASA press release here: https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/2023/12/12/engineers-working-...

TL;DR - Voyager is sending back bad data, they're working on it.

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Thank you. Didn't want to tap a CNN link for anything involving science

P.s. I also wouldn't go to Fox, before you think this is left/right bias. My bias is against regular media reporting on anything scientific. It's either rendered alarmist, so simplified it's wrong, or some combination of the two

CNN is now owned by a right-wing nut, so CNN and Fox news are about the same now.

> CNN is now owned by a right-wing nut

Who's that in a "Warner Bros. Discovery" world? Glancing at the wikipedia page I see no clear single owner anymore.

Edit: not intending to come to CNN's defense in any way here, just genuine curious who's pulling the strings now in the new ownership structure.

First, I think you got it right already. The "person" pulling the strings is the same "person" pulling the strings at every other quasi-monopolist multinational. Just another Senior VP, likely Ivy League MBA doing whatever they can to ensure they hit this quarter's financial goals.

Second, I just stop engaging when someone says a company/org is run by a right-wing nut/left-wing Communist

> NASA press release here

> Editor’s note: A previous version of this post identified the TMU as the telecommunications unit. It is the telemetry modulation unit.

since clickbait title was made due to nasa's error that has been fixed ...can the clickbait title also be fixed, please?

There was another incident recently with garbled data[1]. The issue then was Voyager was trying to use a processor that was supposed to have been turned off. It either turned the malfunctioning unit or thought that the disabled unit was turned on when it wasn't. But the flaw is similar to the current problem which a malfunction in managing its internal state.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/missions/voyager-program/voyager-2/engi...

Thank you; wish there would be a pinning comments feature or something that could refute, straighten things up under hot topics.

Bad data or alien-inputted data?

Honestly, until the headline says "permanently" or "destroyed" I just assume it's a glitch they'll spend a few weeks 24/7 investigating.

Wow.

Popsci can be kinda clickbaity too, but CNN's title is just shameless.

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